Abstracts tagged "economics and healthcare policy"

Abstract Number: 2731 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Decomposition Analysis of Spending and Price Trends for Biologic Anti-Rheumatic Drugs in Medicare and Medicaid
Natalie McCormick¹, Zachary Wallace ², Chana Sacks ³, John Hsu ⁴ and Hyon K. Choi ⁵, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ³Department of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Billions of public dollars are spent each year on biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs), but the drivers of bDMARD spending and per-patient cost increases…